I've been a big Regan fan for years. His style of observations about the world mixed with clever jokes and his facial expressions have always had me giggling in the past. As a big stand up fan I was beyond excited to see a new Regan special. I came to find out it's actually a show. So this is great news right?
Well unfortunately I found absolutely no redeeming quality in this. I had to force myself to watch the entirety of the first episode as I wanted to turn it off after only minutes. The fact that he is rehashing his old material in itself is not such a bad thing. If done in a proper way I actually would love to see some of his crazy and zaney ideas expanded upon. The delivery of this however leaves one to wonder "did I just watch the worst tv show / stand up special ever?" Unfortunately I would have to say pretty darn near close.
We are practically in 2019 and I thought my days of hearing laugh tracks are over. This show does not use a laugh track, however the audience is actually worse. I actually would rather have the Full House laugh track as opposed to this audience. They actually start to laugh BEFORE the punchlines sometimes. It is extremely forced and contrived. I do not believe I am exaggerating here when I say I feel this is the most annoying audience I have ever had the displeasure of seeing/listening to. They literally laugh at everything and in the same almost "monotone" way. It is incredibly distracting and has to be one of the worst decisions a tv show has ever made... It's 2019 for pete's sake! This would have been outdated in the 80's!!
Then there is that producer woman (I think her name is Beth?). Her banter with Brian is once again very forced. It is so bad you get the feeling she is being forced to do this under threat of death or something because she is the most insincere "actor" I have ever seen. It is pretty hard to make Brian Regan unfunny but well... She's making it happen. I just wanted Brian to pull some cord and a giant bucket of slime falls on her the entire way through watching this. This person has no business doing what she is doing.
Now it wouldn't be fair to just blame her and the audience. After all Brian obviously had a large creative hand in creating this (although that is an assumption). Even if he didn't he should have enough sense to see this as a train wreck a mile away and steer clear. I sure hope he is making a pile of $ for this and that's what this is about. He's a great guy and totally deserves it and I would not lose respect if that's what he's doing. Because he sure as heck is not doing this for critical acclaim. He himself is as unfunny as I've ever seen him perform. He seems to have about as much energy as he had when he was on the Joe Rogan podcast and that is to say he had no energy. His previous stand up specials are full of energy.
This special was so bad I felt compelled to post a review online. I've never done this before and had to create an account just to do so.
Well unfortunately I found absolutely no redeeming quality in this. I had to force myself to watch the entirety of the first episode as I wanted to turn it off after only minutes. The fact that he is rehashing his old material in itself is not such a bad thing. If done in a proper way I actually would love to see some of his crazy and zaney ideas expanded upon. The delivery of this however leaves one to wonder "did I just watch the worst tv show / stand up special ever?" Unfortunately I would have to say pretty darn near close.
We are practically in 2019 and I thought my days of hearing laugh tracks are over. This show does not use a laugh track, however the audience is actually worse. I actually would rather have the Full House laugh track as opposed to this audience. They actually start to laugh BEFORE the punchlines sometimes. It is extremely forced and contrived. I do not believe I am exaggerating here when I say I feel this is the most annoying audience I have ever had the displeasure of seeing/listening to. They literally laugh at everything and in the same almost "monotone" way. It is incredibly distracting and has to be one of the worst decisions a tv show has ever made... It's 2019 for pete's sake! This would have been outdated in the 80's!!
Then there is that producer woman (I think her name is Beth?). Her banter with Brian is once again very forced. It is so bad you get the feeling she is being forced to do this under threat of death or something because she is the most insincere "actor" I have ever seen. It is pretty hard to make Brian Regan unfunny but well... She's making it happen. I just wanted Brian to pull some cord and a giant bucket of slime falls on her the entire way through watching this. This person has no business doing what she is doing.
Now it wouldn't be fair to just blame her and the audience. After all Brian obviously had a large creative hand in creating this (although that is an assumption). Even if he didn't he should have enough sense to see this as a train wreck a mile away and steer clear. I sure hope he is making a pile of $ for this and that's what this is about. He's a great guy and totally deserves it and I would not lose respect if that's what he's doing. Because he sure as heck is not doing this for critical acclaim. He himself is as unfunny as I've ever seen him perform. He seems to have about as much energy as he had when he was on the Joe Rogan podcast and that is to say he had no energy. His previous stand up specials are full of energy.
This special was so bad I felt compelled to post a review online. I've never done this before and had to create an account just to do so.